“Man is something that shall be overcome.Man is a rope,tied between beast and overman - a rope over an abyss.What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.”-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
--Nothing scientific can be racist and nothing racist can be scientific.
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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Time permitting, it looks as though the CM PRESS will have to become more active at City Council meetings again in order to push for some real improvement on the Westside and to suggest to the Council that they're screwing up by putting too many executives on the City payroll.

You don't right size government by laying off all the workers and then hiring too many executives who aren't needed.

We now have a CEO and an Assistant CEO. What next, an assistant to the Assistant CEO and then an assistant to the assistant to the Assistant CEO?

We'll once again remind the Council that we're in an election year and that they need to adjust their course, or they may find people who were behind them suddenly not being behind them anymore.
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Friday, December 30, 2011

In the above story you'll read that this is overwhelmingly a Black problem. And then you'll see the usual PC reflexive reaction about it being because of "institutional racism," or "the economy." Nowhere in the story will you read that the real cause is genes.

Koch is another of the Israel Firsters who would like the U.S. to attack Iran. Never mind that American kids would die in a meaningless war that is not in our best interests.

Israel is not one of the United States. It must stand on its own, and the U.S. shouldn't be sucked into any conflicts it has with its neighbors.

As we often see with such columns as Koch's, the seeming attacks against one person (this time Ron Paul) are really attacks on all of the indigenous peoples of Europe in the European diaspora who have any sense of their identity and any desire to further their interests as the distinct people that they are. Such columns are intended to slap down any sense of White identity and White cohesiveness.

Whenever you read such hate filled columns, scratch the surface and get some information on the writer and his or her biases. If people of one race attack people of another race, don't let them keep their race a secret. Trumpet it. If people of one religion attack people of another religion, don't let them keep their religion a secret. Trumpet it. If people of one political persuasion attack people of another political persuasion, don't let them keep their political persuasion a secret. Trumpet it.

The problem with hate columns such as Koch's is that people don't scratch the surface and think (if they think about it at all) that the writer has no biases and no agendas. Don't buy it. Scratch the surface. Get their biographical information.
# # #UNDERWATER ROBOT SHOWS NEW SPECIES AT DEEP VENTS

With photos and film.

The DNA molecule is programmed to constantly tinker with life in order to find a way to inhabit every conceivable niche that will support life and make it comfortable and able to thrive.

Why? DNA "wants" to survive and expand, and living organisms are the way it does it.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

[UPDATE: Boys and girls, be sure to have your mommy and daddy read the comments HERE under the Daily Pilot article mentioned below.

That funny Mr. Tom now has a whole long string of comments there that quote material going all the way back to the 1800's. Honest Injun. Please someone tell Mr. Tom, the issue is simple: The school board should spend the money they get on the kids, not on themselves. And, if there's a shortage of money, the kids come first.]

Good morning boys and girls. Here's a photo of Tom Egan. Let's call him Mr.Tom.

Mr. Tom is a frequent critic of the good City Councilmembers, but now he's also criticizing those who criticize the school board.

Mr.Tom is funny. He goes to City Council meetings and just sort of complains a lot.

Recently, Mr. Tom wrote a column in the Daily Pilot. Then, Mr. Tom thought I had commented on that column under a phony name. Mr. Tom was sad when I told him that it wasn't me. Can you draw a sad face, boys and girls? Oh, I forgot, you don't have any pencils to draw with or any paper to draw on. Never mind.

Anyway, Mr. Tom used to be on the NMUSD school board.

HERE'S Mr. Tom's most recent column in the DAILY PILOT. Mr. Tom is criticizing those who criticize the school board for spending too much money on things such as conferences, etc. for the board members instead of on things for you boys and girls.

Mr. Tom wants your mommy and daddy to believe that it's okay for the school board to use your mommy and daddy's money to go to conferences and pay for things that don't help you.

But other people like Mr.Steve Smith over at the Daily Pilot say that money should be spent on you boys and girls. Mr. Tom doesn't like it when Mr. Steve says those things.

So, boys and girls, where are the schools going to get money if the school board doesn't give it to them?

Why, that's right, the schools ask your mommy and daddy for the money. This makes some mommies and daddies mad because they already give money to the school board that is supposed to be used on you. It's called taxes.

Recently, at least one school in the district sent out a letter to your mommy and daddy asking them to donate money to the school so the school can buy stuff for you.

Now, boys and girls, remember what I just told you above? Your hard working mommy and daddy already contribute money to the school. It's called taxes. Your mommy and daddy's money is supposed to be used by the school board to buy this stuff that is needed in the schools and not use it to go to unnecessary conferences and for other wasteful things.

You see, boys and girls, the school board has NO money. Every penny belongs to your mommy and daddy and the school board is supposed to use that money on you.

And, the dimwitted neurotic self-hating Good Whites croon that it must be White American racism. And, all the Black attacks on Whites. More White American racism. And, the high Black crime rate. More White American racism. And, the high Black crime rate in England. More White American racism, ah, more White racism. And, the high Black crime rate in Denmark. More White American racism, ah, more White racism.

See any patterns? The establishment and the press would prefer that you not see such patterns.

That's why, in addition to the excuses you'll find in the above linked story, they try to hide the race of violent criminals.

How many stories have you read in local newspapers about cops trying to find violent criminals and the only description given is that they are male or teens or are a certain age? Why is that? It's because the press is trying to persuade you that violent crime is an equal opportunity employer. It isn't. Not by a long shot, and if you know this you may be just a little safer.

Genes are us. Know it, and you'll start to understand the human condition a little more and you may keep from being a victim.

At this point, the Good Whites sniffle "Well, not every Black or non-White is a criminal." Sigh. Yes, we know that. Most aren't. What we're saying is that in life you have to play the odds. You have to use your senses and your brain to be aware of the world around you and to be able to discern probabilities and possible danger.

Our present Dark Age has gotten so PC stupid that TSA treats 90-year-old White women getting on a plane the same as 20's something dusky guys with beards and shifty eyes. That's just nuts, and it's done so we don't "profile" anyone, mostly based on race or ethnicity.

And, "profiling," that is, as we naturally use it in our everyday lives--if we haven't yet had our brains pithed by the conditioning of society to not do it and to instead override our sense of danger; our gut feelings--is simply the automatic processes of our brain taking measurements of the things around us and using subconscious inductive and deductive reasoning to help us survive.

That's why we have our five senses. They exist to help us survive. But, in our present Dark Age, we are told to not believe our senses and to not profile. We are told to override that gut feeling. And, the establishment and the press are trying to help with that conditioning by hiding facts from the public. That's why you see non-White rioters at malls only described as "teens," or "youth," and why many violent criminals aren't described at all.

Look at it this way. Not every shark is going to bite you, but you still are bright enough to know that you're more likely to be bitten by a shark than a flounder.

Would you tell your kids that they shouldn't profile fish and just jump in the water with sharks nearby? Yes, Good Whites, I know we can't be that clear with human beings, but the principle is the same to a lesser or greater degree depending on many surrounding circumstances.

The point of this column is simply to say that you shouldn't let yourself be conditioned by the establishment or the press so that you walk into danger that might otherwise be avoided. It's about survival. Trust your eyes and your other senses and trust that gut feeling--it's your brain telling you something. Get into the habit of consciously profiling. It may save your life.

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Our second thought: Good for Newport. Constant improvement is the best way to keep a city nice.

Our third thought: Why can't Costa Mesa have something similar and why is the Costa Mesa City Council not moving faster to revitalize our city? And why are they dragging their feet on the Westside?
# # #RUSSIAN COURT FINDS NO EXTREMISM IN BHAGAVAD GITA

The above linked article is about the continuing conflict in Israel between ultra Orthodox Jews and secularists.

In Israel, the Ultra-Orthodox are doubling their population every 12 years or so, because of their high birthrate.

According to this additional article [HERE] Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in the U.S. have an average of 6.6 children each, and the Hasidim (the Ultra-Ultra Orthodox) women average 7.9 children each, while secular Jewish women average just 1.86 children each.

This second article [HERE AGAIN] points out that in an Ultra-Orthodox area of New Jersey, the Synagogues are flourishing. Why? The high birthrate.

We have to say it again. We don't know what changes Romney has made to his campaign staff, if any, but whatever he's done is working and he's now running a good campaign.
# # #BORN RED, DIE RED

Lib blog promotes Native American march on D.C.

How's the above headline sound to you?

It sounds fine to the CM PRESS. In fact, we're glad whenever we see Native Americans, or any other distinct group of humans, resisting their genocide--whether it's direct or via assimilation and blending--and feeling pride in who and what they are as a distinct people and trying to survive and thrive as a distinct people.

But, here's the thing about this. How would you feel if the above headline read: Born White, Die White?

Would you suddenly run for cover and call it racist? If so, why?

The Native American behind the above march also proudly says that he is "full blood" Native American.

How would you feel if a White said that he is "full blood" White?

If you're one of the Good Whites, and you heard a White claim he was "full blood" White, you'd probably be out having hug-a-thons and candle light marches to show that you're against "racism," and how you don't even want to be White, but, damn it, you were cursed by being born that way and you've been trying to get rid of that Whiteness ever since.

In fact, if you're a Good White, you might even try to get into the Native American march to show just how good a White you are. You might even put a feather in your hair to show how good a White you are.

And, yes, this could lead to a much longer column here about Great White Mothers and Great White Fathers and Lord Jims and the other terms I've coined over the years to describe the pitiful and neurotic self-hating Good Whites, but you get the idea.

Monday, December 26, 2011

The bigger picture is that opposition remains to a one size fits all world as people demand the right to worship and live as they please, even as the mistaken one planet Utopians keep pushing for world wide homogenization of humans so that we effectively have one race, one religion and one nation.

These one planet Utopians will fail. What they are trying to do is artificial, it is anti-nature and it is anti-evolution. They are trying to rob human beings of their right to be different; often under the false idea that this will bring world peace, but this is a mistaken view of how existence works.

Existence is not static, it involves constant movement. With movement comes change. With change come differences. The differences never stop. Never. This applies to clusters of galaxies, to single cell organisms, and to everything else in existence, including human beings.
# # #THE EMPIRE ATTACKS RON PAUL (THE IMPLICIT WHITE CANDIDATE)

As he travelled through his forest, Zarathustra came upon the Good People who were being attacked by dogs in their apple orchard.

Zarathustra watched and listened as the Good People tried to escape the dogs. He could hear the Good People saying things such as "We don't understand this. We love dogs. Why, we all have pet dogs in our homes. Why are these dogs attacking us?"

Finally, one of the Good People came to Zarathustra and said, "We have heard of you Zarathustra and it is said you know things of nature. Tell us why these dogs are attacking us, we are Good People."

Zarathustra took a crab apple from his left pocket and said: "Taste." The Good Person did so and immediately spit it out saying "That apple is bitter."

This was predictable (and we predicted it) years ago. Some U.S. politicians seem incapable of making fine line distinctions involving people, their societies, and their religions. What we are now seeing in that part of the world shows this.

Okay, here are some future things to watch and which we think have a high degree of probability of happening. Remember, we don't deal in certainties, but in probabilities:

1. Iran will get nukes. In fact they may already have some (but probably not home grown ones at this point). The Iranians would be stupid to not have nukes as a deterrent.

2. Iraq will eventually have a government very similar to Iran's. That is, there will be an Ayatollah who will be the power behind the throne.

3. Russia and China will vie for the affections (and oil) of the Muslim countries. With the hatred for us that our out of touch successive D.C. administrations have built up against us because of our double standard foreign policy, the duo should be able to trump the U.S. in this regard. This means, in part, that Russia and China will start increasing the sale of top of the line military weapons to Muslim countries, including Iran and Iraq, as they bargain for oil and friendship. At this point, many Muslim countries are not going to be satisfied with old technology weapons and will want the newest and the best, and they can play Russia and China off against each other to get them.

4. Watch for big problems in Saudi Arabia--a nation that is more a family than a real nation--as the ordinary people get more and more upset with the rulers who are now propped up by Washington.# # #READER QUESTIONS CM PRESS'S FISCAL CONSERVATISM

Anonymous said...

It would be better to hire someone with experience in economic development who already lives in Costa Mesa, then someone who has no experience what so ever. Naghavi may be a good engineer, but he hasn't a clue how to fix the westside or to encourage more businesses to relocate to Costa Mesa. If you are such a fiscal conservative, you would have to ask why create another highly paid position when the cities goal is to reduce the size of government. Something to ponder.
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The CM PRESS replies...

We've already said that we think the Council is screwing up by hiring so many people at the top with big salaries.

It's not what we would be doing if we were on the Council. But, we're not on the Council. As always, we try to weigh the good that we think the Council is doing with the bad. So far, the good is winning.

We think Naghavi should have been named Asst. CEO, but that didn't happen. As far as we can tell, Naghavi may be the last of the old hands at City Hall, and he may be the only one there who knows where the fuse box is in case the lights go out.

And as far as Naghavi's qualifications for this new position, we suspect this was just a catch-all title that was dreamed up to keep Naghavi around. We also suspect that Naghavi will continue to do two or three jobs in addition to what his new title will be.

Our impression of Naghavi is that he's a pretty bright guy and can adapt to whatever new tasks are thrown at him very quickly.

Here's the thing about everything that is being done by our municipal government; the buck stops at the City Council, and if the voters of Costa Mesa are not convinced that the Council is improving Costa Mesa and their lives here in the city, then they'll make changes during the election in the new year.

As we've written many times before, the CM PRESS has no friends in politics and we try to keep at an arms length from all politicians so that we can stay true to the things we think need to be done in Costa Mesa.

You may recall that we once supported Wendy Leece, but she let us and the city down.

It may turn out that we'll also change our support to other politicians this year. But, we're not at that point yet and we continue to watch and listen and weigh pros and cons.

Nobody blows smoke up our kilt, and talk is cheap. So far, some of the good Councilmembers have the right talk as far as the Westside goes, but we want to see a lot more action.
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Finally, we have a City Council (with the exception of Wendy Leece) that has some brass ones and that is driving the changes that are so needed in this city.

Naturally, the mice people and the bloggers lacking testosterone don't see it that way. This fearful gang of nincompoops are afraid of everything including life itself. "Slow down," they say and one is reminded of the people who thought going 25 miles per hour in early automobiles was dangerous.

Once again, to get just the right picture of some of these nitwits, do this little exercise in method acting: Find some rough wool or burlap underwear and put them on. Put on some shoes that are three sizes too small. Put on a rough pair of wool pants and a too tight shirt after dipping them in water. Then, stand with your knees touching but your feet apart. Point your toes inward. Hold your nose and whine: "We're going too fast. This is all soooooo stresssssful."

Yes, dear friends, these dimwits were afraid because of layoffs. They were afraid because the helicopter was being grounded. They were afraid because of police cutbacks. They were afraid...of everything. As we go into 2012, they'll still be afraid. It's in their nature to be afraid. Everything new scares them. Shadows scare them. Life scares them. They lack the life force. They are winter walking.

What's the best way to treat such feeble people? Ignore and shun them. They are chicken littles and full of death and negativity. They are hollow husks incapable of generative thinking. Their brains are as barren as their loins.

Notwithstanding the above, this is not to say that the good Councilmembers have been doing everything right. We refer of course to the lack of real progress on the Westside, but we're hopeful that 2012 will bring some real changes there.

And, as we wrote before, there are some inexpensive and quick things the good Councilmembers can do right now that will begin the changes on the Westside--such as putting in proper signs to announce one's entry to the Westside on W. 19th Street.

Does this sound like a waste of time and money to you? It's not. It's repackaging the Westside by getting rid of the old dull package. The signs will announce the changes and help them happen. It'll also please the landlords and tenants on the street as more customers will feel comfortable about getting out of their cars and going into stores there.

For our part, we'll be constantly reminding everyone--including the Council--that the Westside needs to be fixed. If nothing else, they may get moving just to shut us up.

At least he will if the City Council votes him in at their January 3rd meeting.

This is a new position that is being created and Naghavi, if the Council so decides, will be the first person to hold this job.

We have a couple of things on our wish list about this:

1. We wish Naghavi would move to Costa Mesa so some of that great salary we're paying him would circulate right here.

2. We wish this position were more geared towards fixing the Westside, i.e. that it had less emphasis on "economic" and more on, say, "improving the Westside by helping implement the Westside plans."

On wish #1: Cities in California aren't allowed to require their workers to live in the city where they work. By contrast, in Massachusetts, where there is no such law, many cities, including Boston, require all City workers to live in the city where they work. But, even though Costa Mesa can't require our employees to live here, we think it would be a show of good faith for Naghavi to voluntarily move to Costa Mesa.

On wish #2: Perhaps, even though nothing about the Westside is mentioned in his new job description, Mr. Hatch will task Naghavi with putting some effort into fixing that area of our city that is most in need of fixing.

Friday, December 23, 2011

We don't know what's happening with Romney, but he's sounding better and better and more Reaganesque.

The only thing we can figure is that he's hired some new talent to help him craft his message.

Whatever is happening so far, we like.
# # #THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME ON DARK AGE EARTH

Once, it was against the law in some countries to deny that the Earth was the center of the solar system.

Then, it became against the law in some countries to even question the specific facts of the Jewish Holocaust.

Now, in the latest news [HERE], France is making it against the law to deny the Armenian Holocaust and Turkey is calling the law racist and is striking back by saying France committed genocide against the Algerians.

He reportedly used racial slurs, spit at, and then rode his bicycle towards an Hispanic woman.

This points up something that I've written about before.

Whites are mouthy. They will often engage in ritual combat--by calling names--but there is often no physical combat.

One has to suspect that this is a genetically caused mechanism to relieve psychological pressure. When it's two Whites involved, it often ends right there with the name calling.

However, other racial groups seem to go to physical combat sooner, so a White who engages in name calling against some non-Whites may subconsciously be programmed to believe that's the end of it, but the non-White participant is subconsciously programmed to take it up a level. This often leads to the White person being blindsided with the physical violence.
# # #HB COPS HIDING THE NAME OF THE KILLER OF 19-YEAR-OLD

Generally, when a non-White murders a White, the cops and the press try to hide, or delay for as long as possible, either the racial identity of the victim or the suspect so that Whites don't have their consciousness raised to the fact that they, as a race, are often the targets of race hate crimes.

Once White public interest and emotion about such a murder wanes, the cops and the press may reveal the identity of the suspect or the victim. But, even then, if it is a White victim and a non-White suspect, the cops and the press will often try to attribute the murder to some motive other than race hate of Whites.

In the above murder in Huntington Beach we figure there's a high probability that the murderer has an Asian or Latino name and that this is what the cops are hiding or holding back.

We'll try to keep track of this and if the murder suspect's name is revealed, we'll let you know.

Knowledge of crime probabilities can help keep you and yours safe. Don't be a victim of PCitis.
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Nope. Obama isn't to blame. The George Bushes (both of them) are to blame, but mostly bull in a china shop George the younger.

As we wrote years ago, the only reason that Iraq was reasonably stable--and somewhat Western in its views--was because of the iron hand of Saddam Hussein (a Sunni) who kept the opposing religious and ethnic groups in check.

Saddam's much reported "brutality against his own people" (remember all the planted stories about his brutality in the U.S. press that were, in addition to the phony WMD stories, used to excuse our invasion?) was Saddam's attempt to keep the country from becoming what it is now becoming--an Islamic state under the rule of Shiites.

We predicted that if Saddam were removed, the Shiites would seek ascendancy and that they'd align themselves with Iran (a predominantly Shiite nation),and that's what we're seeing starting to happen. In addition, the Kurds are stepping up their campaign to have their area of Iraq become a separate nation.

We also predicted many times, and this still hasn't happened yet, that if and when Shiite cleric Muqtada-al-Sadr obtains the rank of Ayatollah that all hell is going to break loose in Iraq. Actually, it may break loose sooner than that as a way for him to obtain that rank.

Stay tuned, but don't blame Obama for this.
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THE 19th STREET BRIDGE MEETS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A WONDERFUL LIFE IF THE CITY COUNCIL HAD ONLY HAD THAT THIRD VOTE

As I happily sit here in my loft overlooking the marina and beach at the end of W. 19th Street that has turned the Westside into the place to be in Costa Mesa, Clarence enters the picture and shows me what the Westside would be like in December 2011 had the Costa Mesa City Council in the past not had the third vote to go forward with the marina.

The vision is horrible.

There are illegal aliens all over the place. The schools stink. The slums are growing. Street gangs are robbing people. Upwardly mobile people are fleeing for nicer areas rather than being trapped in a slum. The best restaurant on W. 19th Street is a free soup kitchen. Pawn shops and downscale businesses line the street. Charities are growing. Charity bosses are treated like royalty. And, now there's talk of putting a bridge in that will increase traffic in the area and which will eventually connect up with the 57 freeway and make Costa Mesa little more than a traffic island.

I say,"Clarence, this is horrible. Take me back to reality. Take me back to the Costa Mesa with the marina and beach and a nice Westside. This is a future we must not have."

Clarence replies, "This is the present. This is the reality. You were dreaming. There never was a marina. There was no third vote and the marina plan died."

I suddenly realize that Clarence hadn't come to cheer me up, but to show me that one vote on the City Council can make all the difference in the world and that citizens have to keep a careful eye on the City Council and let their voices be heard so mistakes of the past won't be repeated and so the Westside can finally be improved.
# # #ROMNEY SAYS HE'D DEPORT OBAMA'S UNCLE

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Be sure to go to this guy's Website and check out all the details. You could do a lot worse than this guy.
# # #TWO IMPORTANT MEETINGS FOR COSTA MESANS--JANUARY 4TH AND 5TH

19th Street bridge
Orange County Supervisor John Moorlach will hold an open house at Huntington Beach’s Eader Elementary School Thursday, Jan. 5 at 7 p.m. to discuss a potential bridge across the Santa Ana River at W. 19th Street in Costa Mesa.

The intent of the meeting is “to solicit feedback from residents regarding the future of a bridge,” which is on the county’s master transportation plan.

Eader Elementary School is at 9291 Banning Ave. in Huntington Beach.

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An informational meeting on a City charter for Costa Mesa originally scheduled for Jan. 5 has been moved to Wednesday, Jan. 4 at 7 p.m. at the Costa Mesa Neighborhood Community Center, 1845 Park Ave., so the two meetings won’t conflict.
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WILL 2012 BE THE YEAR THAT THE WESTSIDE IS FINALLY TRANSFORMED?

We hope so. For our part, we'll try to keep the Westside front and center. However, what happens on the Westside is largely what the City Council wants to happen or not happen.

If the City Council finally puts fixing the Westside as its major priority for the new year, we'll see the changes that are needed.

So important is fixing the Westside, that the CM PRESS thinks setting it as our goal should be our local version of JFK's pledge to take America to the moon.

And, remember, fixing the Westside is not just about fixing the Westside.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

City Staff let us know late today that you can find (if you look really, really hard) the 19 West Urban Plan on the City's Website, and that when the new Website is launched in February, it'll be easier to find.

There are inexpensive things that the City Council can do right now to start implementing the 19 West Urban Plan.

For example, go to Adobe Reader page 24 of the 19 West Urban Plan and you'll see signs suggested for the entrance to the Westside on W. 19th Street that, if installed, and if done correctly,will start the process of giving the street an upscale identity and setting a new tone for the area.

Never underestimate the power of a good signage program to change the perception of an area.

Next, we need the other two Westside Urban Plans also put up on the City's Website for everyone to see.

These three plans work together to make the Westside the great part of town that it should be. And the plans can be implemented a small piece at a time as money and other factors allow.
# # #GENES PLAY MAJOR ROLE IN SOCIAL INTERACTIONS

Yup. Those low consciousness mouse like Whites who are fearful of appearing prejudiced get all nervous when they're around non-Whites.

We imagine the inner conversation of such a White: "Oh dear, I want to buy some white paint for my house, but the salesman is Black. Will he think I'm prejudiced? I know; I'll high-five him and call him bro and tell him how much I like Bill Cosby. That should prove I'm a good White."*

If you haven't yet signed the petition and can't find any to sign, go here, tomorrow, Wednesday, 12/21/11:

Huntington Beach - Congressman Rohrabacher Campaign Headquarters

18281 Gothard, Suite 203
Huntington Beach, CA

or
Huntington Beach - US Post Office
6771 Warner Ave,
Huntington Beach, CA
# # #UPDATE: Well, that was fast. We just got a reply from one of the good Councilmembers who said he was also trying to find the Westside Plans recently and had to go back to the agenda where they were approved to get them. He says he'll see if they can be made more readily available.
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Santiago St. Lofts in Santa Ana would
be a nice fit for CM's Westside

WHERE ARE THE WESTSIDE PLANS?

We sent an email to the good new City Council members and others at City Hall this morning asking why the Westside Plans aren't on the City's Website. We'll let you know what we hear.

The new Council has had plenty of time to start making some major changes on the Westside and we're going to be sure the Council knows of our concerns that it's not happening as it should.

New readers may not be aware of this, but when the Westside Plans were being worked on, it was documented in great detail that a large part of the Westside legally qualified to be in a redevelopment zone, and eminent domain could have been used to bulldoze much of what is now standing over there.

However, it was decided to not take that expensive and extreme route but to instead try to encourage and make it easier for developers to come in and buy up properties, make the changes, and show a nice profit because of the relaxed standards permitted by the plans.

Then, the economy crashed and the new City Council focused almost exclusively on getting Costa Mesa's financial house in order.

Well, it looks as though things are picking up in the financial sector locally--witness the $3.8 million surplus the City is showing as we reported in CM PRESS # 715.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Costa Mesa finishes 2010-11 fiscal year with a $3.8 [million] budget surplus[This is a City press release that we're publishing with no editing other than adding [million] to the City's headline. The body of the press release makes it clear that the surplus wasn't just three dollars and eight cents. We wish we could suggest that this money-- the millions, not the three bucks and change--be used to buy up slum buildings on the Westside, but it's going into the reserve fund to fill that back up after being drained over the past few years.]

COSTA MESA, CALIF.—Costa Mesa’s General Fund finished the 2010-11 fiscal year with a $3.8 million surplus, according to the City’s recently completed annual financial audit.

Higher-than-expected sales tax revenues and budget-tightening measures erased a projected $1.4 million deficit, and the City finished in the black for the first time since fiscal year 2006-07.

The independent audit, known as Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) and available shortly on the City’s website, shows that the surplus resulted from receiving $95.3 million in revenue and transfers in, while paying $91.5 million in expenditures and transfers out for the year that ended June 30.

The $3.8 million surplus went into the City’s reserve fund, helping raise available cash in November (when cash flow is at its lowest) from about $5 million in 2010 to about $10 million this year. The cash reserves are still short of the $14 million minimum that the City, by Council policy, is supposed to set aside for natural disasters and emergencies. The City had used more than $30 million of its reserves in the previous three fiscal years while trying to balance its budget.

Compared to the prior fiscal year, total revenues increased 4.2%, while expenditures decreased sharply by 8.6%. Revenues rose because of a slight rebound in the economy and the voter-approved increase in the hotel tax rate. Savings were attained through layoffs, positions left vacant, employees contributing more to their pensions, and reductions in service.

In addition to restoring its reserve fund, the City Council has pledged to start paying down the significant $255 million in unfunded liabilities and begin a 5-year, multi-million-dollar capital improvement plan to make infrastructure repairs and improvements that had been put off in recent times because of budget shortfalls.
# # #HOLDER PULLS RACE CARD

Attorney General says those who are criticizing him are doing so because of the color of his skin. Ho hum.

You see how it works. If you're White you're supposed to shut up and not criticize anyone who is Black.
# # #UPDATE ON COLUMN BELOW ABOUT THE CITY COUNCIL NOT FIXING THE WESTSIDE
[Note: Some reader comments that should be under # 715, are under # 714 by mistake.]

We got this comment below in blue from By Answers, got any? (an "anonymous" member of the Planning Commission):

" [CM PRESS,] you have [l]ot's of talk, no ideas. What would you do if you were on the City Council? Don't keep saying that buying up slum apartments is the answer, CM doesn't have the money for that. What else do you have? ByAnswers, got any?"

To:By Answers, got any?: Yes, we do have answers, and the first thing the Council should do is get you off the Planning Commission.

Then, the Council should get their monetary and other priorities straight. There are people on the Council who understand how to put real estate deals together. By making a conscious decision that the Westside will be their highest priority, and then by putting the Westside Plans front and center, things will start happening.

We already did the necessary thinking about what has to be done, and it's in the aforementioned Westside Plans. Just read them and implement them.

And, the City does have the money to begin removing slums. It just has to spend it correctly. One thing the Council needs to stop is the hiring of more executives at City Hall. Use that money for the buying up slums fund.
* * *HEY COSTA MESA CITY COUNCIL...

How about fixing the Westside? You're wasting time and people are becoming impatient.

You already have the lefties against you. Do you want the righties to be against you also? Get working.

Stop carrying water for the county and state GOP and focus on Costa Mesa's Westside.

If you think things are going to go your way in the 2012 elections with the help of some of the milquetoasts you've appointed to various commissions and committees, you may be very surprised.

The larger issue here is how, in the modern world, can we allow people to follow their religious beliefs when those religious beliefs conflict with the secular plain wrap, one size fits all society?

The religious Jews in the above story believe that it is a religious requirement for men and women to be segregated. And, since Israel's claim to existence is that this is the land given to Jews by God, the religious Jews believe that all of Israel should be as religious as they are.

Such conflicts aren't limited to Jews and Israel. We find similar conflicts between religious Muslims and various countries in which they now live.

And, we find a similar conflict with the Amish and the outside world, and with the fundamentalist Mormons such as the FLDS which have numbers of their believers in Arizona, Utah, Texas and Canada.

The question for society is what do you do with people with deeply held religious views who won't conform to the what's happening now standards of the larger society?

Should these religious people be forced to give up their religious views because they do not fit in with what the larger society wants?

Or, should they be left alone to follow their religious views--in their own communities--so long as they don't try to force them on others in the outside world? But if this view is accepted, what happens if people who don't follow these religious views move into the communities of those who do?

Sunday, December 18, 2011

As regular readers know, we've generally been supportive of what the new City Council has been doing.

That is, we've long felt that the City was too larded up with employees. And, we've long believed that it should cut back; but largely through attrition and hiring freezes and with some logical outsourcing.

Our position hardened in favor of the Council after we started reading all the hate messages left by presumed employees.

However, we're not in favor of letting the lower level workers go and filling upper level executive positions with much more expensive (and, perhaps, less productive) paper pushers as it seems the Council is now doing.

Take the recent hiring of Rick Francis as the new Asst. CEO. This guy is going to be making something like $ 144,000 per year and he's a newbie to City government; doesn't know his way around and hasn't come up from the ranks.

Prior to Francis' hiring, the City had appointed long time employee Peter Naghavi as the interim Asst. CEO. We thought that was a good move. Here's why. We've watched Naghavi over the years and this guy would have saved us money as the Asst. CEO. Not only would he have done the Asst. CEO job, but we're confident he'd also be doing his present job and the one below that as well.

You can hardly drive around this city where some City worker is digging a hole for something or other and not also see Naghavi there making sure the job is done right.

For the price of one Asst. CEO, we would have gotten a guy--Naghavi--who would do two or three jobs, so we wouldn't have to hire people to fill those jobs. That's just good economy.

We're also not pleased with some of the deadwood that the Council has on the two commissions.

And, we're especially not pleased that all the efforts of this Council seem to be going in directions other than fixing the Westside.

Part of the problem with this Council is that a few of the people on the Council seem to be more in tune with the establishment GOP than with Costa Mesa. They may find that's a big mistake come the election next year if they don't make some fast course corrections.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Below in "bold italic" is a line from a much longer comment I got from an anonymous reader the other day.

"[Y]our obsession with race prevents good people from wanting to be associated with you in any manner."

Yeah? Good people? Who are they? Don't they want a dialog on race as mentioned by President Obama? Or, are they afraid to talk about race?

Do these good people, if they're White, think that talking about races, other than Whites, is like talking about someone who has a birth defect and that it is something that shouldn't be talked about in polite society?

Are they afraid to look at crime and other statistics and even more afraid that they might see patterns that follow racial lines?

Are they afraid to accept people as they are, with their differences, or must all people fit into a mold--a White mold--which is really what many Whites are doing when they try to deny race?

Are they the low self-esteem Whites who hide in the shadows and act like whipped dogs who have had their spirits broken and who one thinks might even be afraid to say they prefer white meat on a turkey, lest they be called racist?

Please spare me the company of such good people. I avoid them whenever possible. They are the weak seeds among us and are to be treated as the flat-worlders that they truly are.

As thinking Whites have noticed, it is mostly only low consciousness Whites who run from any mention of race unless it is to praise non-Whites and slam Whites. These are the same types of Whites who have no problem with there being a Congressional Black Caucus and a Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and many groups furthering interests of non-Whites, but let anyone suggest that we should have a Congressional White Caucus and groups that further White interests and they begin blustering and calling names to demonstrate just how wonderfully aracial--how un-White they are inside.

Enough of that. The first part of the commenter's sentence posited the notion that I have an obsession with race. Actually, I don't. Not about race, per se. I'm more concerned with DNA and genes.

But I do have an obsession. It is an obsession with trying to figure out if there is any meaning to existence and especially of life in general, and human life in particular. This leads naturally to looking at human differences and evolution, psychology, physics and on and on.

Yup, I'm obsessed. I want answers to the big questions of existence. What does it all mean? But, writing directly about such things will bore most people, unless they have a certain turn of mind, and that's not what I primarily want to do in the CM PRESS. However, you will find (if you know how to look), many things in the CM PRESS that tangentially often do explore elements of the big questions as they relate to the human condition. They are usually presented in a toss away fashion, but they're there. I am who I am, and my obsession with the big questions of existence automatically colors much of what I do. Such is the way of obsessions.

Friday, December 16, 2011

The CM PRESS has supported much of what the new Council is doing, but we do think City government is starting to get too top heavy and we also think the Council needs to put fixing the broken Westside as its top priority.

Or, to put this in other words, we think the new Council may be putting too much effort into outsourcing at the lower employment end while porking up at the top, and also may be putting too little effort into fixing the Westside.

And, speaking of this, I once did some consulting to a small manufacturing firm that was having some financial problems. When I visited the factory, I gathered with the executives in the production office that overlooked the lathes that produced the products the firm made.

There were 6 of us in the office looking out the window to the shop floor with the lathes. There was only one machinist working to make the products. Six of us watching and one working. The company had plenty of orders for its products. It had no raw material supply problems. It just had too many paper pushers and not enough workers. We changed that.

Maybe it's time for the new Council to make some mid-course corrections to its trajectory.
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In the above column, Crissy-it's-all-about-Hispanics-Brooks, the daughter of Dave Brooks, the president of the Newport Mesa Unified School district and a pastor to the CMPD,* tells us that the scholarships given out by SOY are in danger for lack of funding.

What Brooks fails to tell readers is that those scholarships seem to be going almost exclusively to Hispanics.

If you're a poor White, say a single mother, your White kids probably wouldn't get one of those scholarships.

At least that's what we've gleaned from looking at the lists of those getting the scholarships over the past years.

Now, if we're mistaken, please give us the statistics on the race/ethnicity of those getting those scholarships.------
*Say, didn't we mention something about pastors and a church or churches in the article below?# # #THERE'S LOTS OF BUZZ ABOUT THE HIRING OF NEW ASST. CEO RICK FRANCIS

Some of the speculative threads of the buzz are these:

1. He was pursued by Tom Hatch to use as a foil against Righeimer, et. al.

2. He was pursued by Tom Hatch to help Righeimer, et. al.

3. He was hired to slight Peter Naghavi.

4. He was hired by the hidden hand of Righeimer or Mensinger.

5. He was hired by what some might characterize as a growing born again religious Mafia in local government. (See the "back off" subtle threat from a reader in CM PRESS # 711)

6. He simply saw a job opportunity and applied out of the blue.

7. He was hired by the hidden hand of Supervisor Moorlach. (See Moorlach's email below. Note also that Francis was a pastor at the church attended by Moorlach.)

Rick Francis

Here's the email mentioned in # 7 above that Supervisor Moorlach sent around concerning the hiring of Rick Francis:

"The speculation around my Chief of Staff’s moving on to work for the city of Costa Mesa continues. The easy answer is that the city’s CEO (City Manager) pursued Rick Francis. We do a lot of work with the cities in the Second District. This is not the first time someone has tried to recruit him away. And, with the County’s budget limitations, I cannot make a financial counter to make Rick rethink the offer made by Costa Mesa.

"The fun answer is that I found Rick and molded and shaped him to be a robotic clone. I encouraged Tom Hatch to steal away my Chief of Staff in such a subtle way that Tom still thinks the idea was his own. I’ve been active in the city of Costa Mesa for nearly thirty years. With the network I’ve built I am slowly reshaping the composition of the city council and staff. I have numerous individuals placed in key positions. My well-orchestrated conspiracy has been working very well, albeit it has taken longer than originally planned. I’ve had defections, but they can be repaired by waiting a few years for the problems to work themselves out on their own. I’d love to share more about my covert activities, but giving away secrets that I’ve learned from my FBI, CIA and Secret Service training classes would be unprofessional. What I will disclose is that my role model is Simon, in the movie “True Lies,” played by Bill Paxton. (If you believe any of the content in this paragraph, then I have a sports car for sale that you may be interested in.)"
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